Inherited Susceptibility to Cancer
Clinical, Predictive and Ethical Perspectives

This authoritative volume will be of interest to health professionals in the areas of primary care, counselling and cancer risk assessment.

William D. Foulkes (Edited by), Shirley V. Hodgson (Edited by)

9780521104746, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 March 2009

472 pages, 25 b/w illus. 33 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.69 kg

'Foulkes and Hodgson have assembled a group of visionary contributors who not only portray the state of cancer genetics, but also provide helpful glimpses of the future for clinicians and researchers alike.' Francis S. Collins, National Human Genome Research Institute

Many cancers, both common and rare, are known to have a hereditary predisposition and advances in genetics have clarified the risks and in some cases the mechanisms of cancer developing in an individual. First published in 1998, this important contribution to the literature of cancer genetics covers all the key issues, reviewing both the technology behind genetic risk assessment and the ethical dilemmas it poses. It is divided into two parts. The first deals with ethical, legal and social issues. The second systematically outlines current knowledge of the inheritance patterns of many different cancer types, both from a site-by-site perspective and for special groups. This authoritative volume will be of interest to oncologists, physicians and surgeons in other specialities and to health professionals in the areas of primary care, counselling and cancer risk assessment.

Part I. Ethical, legal and social issues, screening, counselling, gene and mutation detection: 1. The inherited basis of cancer Shirley Hodgson and Gareth Evans
2. Screening for cancer in those at high risk as a result of genetic susceptibility Howard Cuckle
3. Ethical and legal perspectives on inherited cancer susceptibility Bartha Maria Knoppers and Beatrice Godard
4. Cancer genetics and public expectations Dorothy Nelkin
5. Genetic counselling June Peters
6. Cancer genetics in primary care Gene Feder and Michael Modell
7. Genetic epidemiologic approaches to finding genes that influence susceptibility to cancer Pamela St. Jean and Nicholas Schork
8. Mutation detection Louise Hosking, Karin Au and Philippe Schork
Part II. Hereditary contribution to cancer: site-by-site and special groups: 9. Cancers of the digestive system Tamar Flanders and William Foulkes
10. Cancers of the breast, ovary and uterus William Foulkes and Steven Narod
11. Cancers of the kidney and urothelium Eamonn Maher
12. Cancers of the prostate and testes Steven Narod, Bonnie King and David Hogg
13. The neurofibromatoses and other neuro-oncological syndromes Martin Ruttledge and Guy Rouleau
14. Malignant melanoma Nicholas Hayward
15. Non-melanoma skin cancer David Goudie
16. Endocrine cancers Harriet Feilotter and Lois Mulligan
17. Tobacco-related cancers of the respiratory and upper digestive tract Zoltan Trizna and Stimson Schantz
18. Inherited abnormalities of DNA processing and predisposition to cancer A. Malcolm Taylor
19. Childhood cancer Kathy Pritchard-Jones
20. Late-breaking developments William Foulkes and Shirley Hodgson
Index.

Subject Areas: Oncology [MJCL], Medical genetics [MFN]